The first picture of British ISIS executioner Jihadi John’s face as an adult has been published – from his time as a model student at the University of Westminster.
The world’s most wanted man was named Thursday as Mohammed Emwazi, a British ‘known wolf’ who grew up in west London and fled to Syria under the nose of MI5 in 2012.
On Friday afternoon the first picture of him as an adult emerged from his time at the University of Westminster, where he studied Information Systems with Business Management from 2006 to 2009.
Wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap and sporting a goatee beard, the photograph shows eyes which clearly belong to the Islamic State’s executioner-in-chief.
But when the photo was taken he was a model student at a London university – his academic record shows he passed all but two of the modules for his degree, gaining a 2:2.
The record shows he passed the majority of his modules, including Introducing Mathematics, Gender, Ethnicity and Cultural Representations, Project Management, Business Organisation and Communication and Interactive Management, but was awarded a ‘condoned credit; retake’ status for modules in Business Information Systems and Managing Business Organisations.
It has also been revealed Jihadi John was once a fun-loving ten-year-old who adored The Simpsons, Playstation games and eating chips, and dreamt of becoming a Premier League star scoring goals for Manchester United by the age of 30.
Londoner Mohammed Emwazi’s handwritten entry in his primary school yearbook shows no sign he would go on to become the world’s most wanted man, believed to have beheaded a string of hostages in the name of Islam.
Describing his ambitions, the Kuwaiti-born British citizen, who moved to the UK aged six, wrote: ‘What I want to be when I grow up is a footballer’, and said by the age of 30 he would be ‘in a football team scoring a goal’.
A decade later Emwazi had shunned British life and was a ‘known wolf’ to MI5 who had already taken the path towards becoming ISIS’ most notorious murderer at the age of 26.
His family are not being named to protect their privacy.
